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I like frying filets in Korean frying batter. But that's not my wife's favourite way, so I grew to really like this other way, too: Whole fish, especially good with 1-2 pound scales-on fish like bass and walleye, but any size or species of fish will work. Bones in, only gutted and rid of its...

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With tandem tripping boats I like symmetrical designs best. My tandem boats are symmetrical hulls, with the exception of a Novacraft Tripper (asymmetrical) that I've been using a lot with my wife the past few years simply because it is my lightest tandem boat for portage-heavy trips. We usually...

Hello Erica, I for one, and there are many others, are looking forward to reading more of your trip. So far, it's been a wonderful read. Hope you're well, and that the next instalment comes soon.

No, the young man wouldn't like being told, and would probably be unpleasant. So out of politeness you say nothing and therefore normalize his inappropriate behaviour. If you learn later that day about a drowning incident involving the father and vulnerable trusting son, you would have to live...

I like the distinction the author makes between work/professional expertise and hobbies/pleasure activities. Allowing oneself to "aspire to mediocrity" in hobbies__pardon the oxymoron __could be incredibly liberating. After all, shouldn't the joy be in the "doing"? Not in the pleasing of...

Just a note to you, Odyssey, to let you know I'm relieved to have found the author__you__of the "master of absolutely nothing, but (who has) a lot of interests" quote. It happens that I crawled out of my cave a month ago to travel to places and to see people I hadn't seen in 10 years. The...

I thought of that song yesterday as my wife and I were talking about how our ideas and dreams aren't those of our sons. I never wanted to be that guy in the song. But if I'm honest with myself, I am, or at least a part of me is, that dad. Maybe our sons should be allowed (even encouraged?) to...

Thanks for posting this, Al. I really enjoyed it. Mr. Hurley discusses some of the places I've paddled throughout the years, and the builders whose boats are such an inspiration. My brother recently had Albert Maw, 80+ years-old, a builder mentioned by Mr. Hurley, repair his 15-foot Northland...

My hands will seize up on handlebars and paddles, oftens when fatigue begins to set in. Sometimes require prying open with the opposite set of fingers. A fresh new ailment. Don't know what causes it. Don't like it.

Rob, another wonderful report. I'll take a moment here to say "thank you" for all the funny and generous and BS-free posts you've made here and on MYCCR over the years that I've been a member. You're humble and gentle and your reports and posts always bring a smile to my face. Well, almost...

I've enjoyed this thread. When I was younger I used to be indifferent to rain on trips. I never tried to plan around forecasts. With age and experience, that's changed. After brushes with two separate wind events, a tornado and a microburst, some particularly miserable and unsafe spring ice-out...

Mike, I'm not familiar with Lieutenant Dan, but watching his demonic rage on the clip was cathartic. I'd hesitate to trip with him in a tandem boat, though. Might consider fully autonomous co-soloing with him if I could know with certainty he was unarmed and I had my own personal can of pepper...

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Thank you, Glenn.

Mike, that's a rare boat that could be of interest to someone who already knows or owns Klepper folding boats. Someone like me! Except that adding any boats to my fleet is out of the question at this stage. From the photos I can see that it's in beautiful condition, and nicely customized as per...

Good links, Recped! Timely reminders that "pollution" and "litter" aren't exactly the same thing. Litter is visible, can tarnish our experience of the beauty of nature, and can, but often doesn't, permanently alter or destroy ecosystems. The damage random litter causes the environment is often...

Scratchypants, thank you for introducing me to a new word: "douchebaggery". The medical supply and rubber industrial complex might take issue with that new term, and perhaps some others, too, but it definitely made me smile.

Yes, many a misty-eyed Canadian "nature-lover" chooses to leave generous heaps of garbage at shore sites. While obeying the mysterious call to re-live childhood memories of good times at the lake with dear departed dad, we fishermen seem to be especially fond of leaving behind empty Red Bull...

Thanks for the responses Pook and Mem. I like the role of coincidence. It's as good a reason as any for inspiring creative work. As a side note I'll bet that playing covers of Hip songs is pretty danged fun. Rock on! I mean ... paddle on!